Infants & Babies

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• Starting Right!You do so many things to ensure your baby’s health: during pregnancy you eat right; you avoid cigarettes, alcohol and all drugs (vaccinations, aspirin, cold, flu and other over-the-counter medications can damage your unborn child or cause problems in pregnancy); and you explore natural, drug-free birth alternatives. After the baby arrives, you (hopefully) breastfeed know-ing that it is the superior form of nutrition for your baby’s physical, intellectual and emotional health. In short, you do everything you can to make sure your baby is healthy.

But have you had your baby’s spine checked? How do you know if your child’s spine is healthy?An unhealthy spine can affect your child’s health for his/her en-tire life. Your doctor of chiropractic is specially trained to check your child’s spine for areas of distortion causing nerve damage—the subluxation complex (subluxations).

• Birth Trauma—The First SubluxationSometimes a newborn’s spine is harmed at birth.1 How can that occur? According to Abraham Towbin, MD: The birth process ... is potentially a traumatic, crippling event ... mechanical stress imposed by obstetrical manipulation—even the application of standard orthodox procedures may prove intolerable to the fetus ... most signs of neona-tal injury observed in the delivery room are neurological.2

• The Spine & Infant HealthWith the birth process becoming more and more an intervening proce-dure, the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to the child’s future.3

— Larry Webster, DC, founder of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association

Infants & Babies

A simple checkup now can make a BIG

difference to your child’s health forever.

Chiropractic brings out the best in me!

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of adjustment overshadows every other type (of care).”5

In another study of 1093 newborns, 298 had up-per neck stress and early signs of scoliosis.6 Surely too many children are born with subluxations that left uncorrected could hinder their health for the rest of their lives.

• For Over A Hundred Years ...For over a hundred years doctors of chiropractic have observed the often dramatic responses of infants to chiropractic care.

There seems to be no limit to the conditions that can respond to chiropractic care: colic;7-10 difficulty breast-feeding;11-12 Erb’s palsy (an arm is limp and undeveloped);13 torticollis (twisted neck);14-15 unbalanced face and skull development;16 foot inversion;17 “nervousness;” ear, nose and throat infections;18 allergies and sleep disorders;19 and projectile vomiting20 are just a sampling. All in-fants however, sick or well, need to have a healthy structural system.

• Shaken Baby SyndromeBabies are very top heavy. Mild to moderate shak-ing of a child can result in serious neurological damage since their neck muscles are undeveloped. This damage has been known to occur after play-fully throwing the child up in the air and catching him/her. The damage caused is called Shaken Baby Syndrome. In addition to being shaken or thrown, being spanked can also cause structural or neuro-logical damage to a child. Any child who has been subjected to this rough behavior desperately needs a chiropractic checkup to prevent possible nerve damage.

• When Does A Baby Need A Chiropractic Checkup?

According to the chiropractic pediatric specialist Larry Webster, DC, there are six times in a baby’s first year of life when chiropractic examinations are especially important:

• After the birth process.

• When the baby starts to hold his/her head up.

Research is confirming chiropractors’ observations that infants may suffer from spinal subluxations. In one study, 1,250 babies were examined five days after

birth; 211 of them suffered from vomiting, hy-peractivity and sleeplessness. Subluxations were found in 95% of this group. Although the re-searchers in this study were MDs, they recognized the power of chiropractic care and these babies were given the care they needed. The spinal ad-justment “frequently resulted in immediate quiet-ing, cessation of crying, muscular relaxation and sleepiness.” The authors noted that an unhealthy spine causes “many clinical features from central motor impairment to lower resistance to infec-tions—especially ear, nose and throat infections.”4 The above study discusses an 18-month-old boy suffering from tonsillitis, frequent enteritis, therapy-resistant conjunctivitis, frequent colds, earache and increasing sleeping problems. He re-ceived a chiropractic spinal adjustment. The child demanded to be put to bed and slept peacefully until morning. His health returned to normal.

One wonders, what would have happened to this child if he never had chiropractic care? A life of antibiotics and other medications? A life of con-tinued sickness?

The authors of the above-mentioned study con-cluded that a chiropractic spinal checkup “should be obligatory after every difficult birth” and any spinal stress “should be ... adjusted ... the success

Chiropractors have many safe

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babies and infants.

• When the baby sits up.

• When the baby starts to crawl.

• When the baby starts to stand.

• When the baby starts to walk.21

• ConclusionOur children deserve to be treated naturally, not with dangerous chemical drugs and unproven surgeries.

Give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. You have your baby’s eyes checked, heart checked, hearing checked—please bring your child(ren) in for a chiropractic exam. A sim-ple checkup now might make a BIG difference for your child(ren) for the rest of their lives.

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